Corruption of the Body Politic of America

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Corruption of the Body Politic of America

The rot did not begin with Trump.

The putrid odor of sadism used on babies and children
has become too strong to be ignored.

(Of course, the Right denies that it is true despite evidence.)

I will always find it to be fucking weird, that a faction
of the Christian community would welcome a Caesar
in 2016, that would deliver rot and cause a putrid odor
to seep into everthing.

Trump supporters are a small faction, The Evangelists are a small
faction, the sickos, bullies, and murderers are a small faction. Yet,
the Russian troll farms convinced them that they are many, and
powerful.

What is sad, is the people that did not belng to the
Jesus Wants You To Be Wealthy mega-church were
not warned that the man making promises, is a ruthless
sociopath. As soon as Trump was out of their earshot, he
put the gullible believing innocents in the "those people,"
categorey, that could not possibly understand. Of course,
they would not understand. They are his polar opposite.
They are part of a forgotten world. Swindles and grifting
are in Trump's blood, like the soil of the farms is in the
farmer's blood. They thought he was on their side.
Trump is on Trump's side. He learned that from his
grandfather, and his father.


Trump continues to beat the drum- of "we are many, and we are powerful."

(It seems as though there are less everyday, because he sold them cheaply.
Trump has to line his on pockets first, and he always has someone lined up,
to pay for his share.)

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Trump today on his Orlando rally last week:
"Outside there were -- I mean, literally tens of thousands
of people couldn't get in." The Orlando Sentinel's report
from outside that day: "The planned overflow area across
from the arena was virtually empty."

(link to the Orlando Sentinel)

11:32 AM - 26 Jun 2019

Lines disappeared and arena seats remained before Trump
took stage in Orlando

About an hour before President Trump was scheduled to speak,
the long lines snaking around the Amway Arena in downtown
Orlando were gone.

Orlando Sentinel Orlando Sentinel @orlandosentinel

It is an old joke, since the Great Pussy Hat protest.
Trump pretends that he does not know that the crowd
vastly outnumbering his supporters, is against him.
He pretends to pretend that he believes that they are
his supporters. Then, he gives away the game
by abusing the protesters. His supporters will let him
have his way, in all things, and he knows it. How numb
are they, to the cognitive dissonance ? Is that why they are so
insistent ?




Gallus is refusing to sign a False Confession, written by ambitious Sejanus
The guards under Sejanus's control are beating Gallus, until he becomes
unconscious.

Gallus: I'll sign nothing for you to produce after I am dead.
Bring me to trial or murder me, and take the consequences.

Sejanus: There'll be no trial. I have no need of a trial to prove your guilt.

Gallus: A song sung by every small-town corrupt policeman,
which is what you are and what you should have stayed.

I have watched your career with fascination, Sejanus.
It's been a revelation it's been to me! I've never fully
realised before how a small mind, allied to unlimited
ambition and without scruple, can destroy a country
full of clever men. I've seen how frail is the structure
of a civilisation before the onslaught of a gust of really
bad breath!

Yes... But I suppose you are not really the destroyer.
No, we must look elsewhere for that. You are merely
the putrefaction that spreads after death - the outward
and visible sign of its presence!

You're a lesson in history to me, Sejanus, proving that,
above all, Mankind needs its sense of smell.

"The veil has been lifted, and — not surprisingly, really —
the real endgame for church leadership always lay in
achieving power. That Jesus stuff was just a cover story."

https://medium.com/@marcusbanks/jesus-wept-on-the-evangelical-embrace-of-donald-trump-96b4fd6e13eb
 
Florida Republicans Try Ugly New Way to Steal the Presidency

June 26, 2019


I know you’re thinking about the debates, or the appalling things being done in our name down along the border, or maybe even war with Iran. But spare me three minutes for another important thing happening this week, one that 1) is simply an affront to democracy and 2) could be the difference between Donald Trump winning or losing Florida, which it isn't at all crazy to say could mean the difference, in a close race, between his winning reelection or losing it.

Sometime this week, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to let SB 7066 become law. That’s the bill that Florida Republicans passed earlier this year to try to undo the expected impact of 2018’s Amendment 4, the initiative restoring voting rights to ex-felons that Florida voters passed overwhelmingly, by 65 to 35 percent.


The relevant language of Amendment 4 said: “any disqualification from voting arising from a felony conviction shall terminate and voting rights shall be restored upon completion of all terms of sentence including parole or probation.” That’s a little bit of a linguistic curveball (disqualification…shall terminate), but it’s clear enough. People with past felony convictions could vote again after completing their sentence, including parole or probation.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/florida-republicans-try-ugly-new-way-to-steal-the-presidency

March 19, 2019

March 20, 2019

One of the biggest victories for civil rights last year was Florida’s passage of Amendment 4, a measure to restore the right to vote for rehabilitated ex-convicts in the state.

The measure, which granted voting rights back to 1.5 million people, or 10 percent of the adult population in the Sunshine State, enjoyed massive bipartisan support, with everyone from the NAACP to the Koch Brothers backing a “second chance” for former offenders. In the end, Amendment 4 passed with 64 percent of the vote, and won a majority in every single congressional, state House, and state Senate district in Florida — and disenfranchised citizens up and down the state rejoiced as they registered to vote for the first time in years.

But now, Republicans in the Florida legislature want to blow up the whole thing.

On Tuesday, along partisan lines, a state House committee advanced a bill that would dramatically scale back Amendment 4 reforms by requiring former offenders pay back all fees and court costs before registering to vote — even extra fees that were not handed down by a judge as part of the original sentence, like surcharges for late payment. The bill would also automatically strip the voting rights of thousands of people who already signed up before these new rules, some of whom have already begun voting in local elections. There is every expectation that GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis, who opposed Amendment 4 during his election campaign last year and who wanted to delay voter registration for ex-convicts until the legislature drew up guidelines, will sign the measure if it reaches his desk.

“It’s blatantly unconstitutional as a poll tax,” said Democratic Rep. Adam Hattersley, comparing the GOP’s actions to the Jim Crow-era laws designed to prevent African-Americans from voting.

https://www.alternet.org/2019/03/bl...e-states-voter-approved-civil-rights-victory/
 
The stench of moral rot of private corporations that
operate prisons for children, becomes too putrid
for another American bank ?

Or, the government is taking over the financing, and
the American taxpayer is now directly sending profits
to corporations that operate private prisons for children.

Bank of America — main bank for Homestead's prison for children
is exiting the detention industry

In late May, the Miami Herald revealed that Bank of America is
the chief financier of Caliburn, the Homestead center’s operator.

Bank of America joins other major banks like Wells Fargo and
JPMorgan Chase, which in late March announced they would
sever ties with the private prison industry — specifically
GEO Group and CoreCivic, the largest operators of private prisons
and detention centers in the country — because it was a “risk” to
their business following national outrage over private companies
profiting off the detainment of people and children.

Up until now, Bank of America, based in Charlotte, N.C., was
the last Wall Street bank funding the industry, records show.

According to documents filed in August with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, Bank of America provided a $380 million
loan for Caliburn, the company that runs the Homestead center
under a U.S. government contract, as well as a $75 million
revolving credit line.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article231993637.html#storylink=mainstage

Bank loans not available- the House and Senate go on the record
about providing funds

June 27, 2019

Ultimately, after hours of closed-door meetings with members of her caucus,
Pelosi gave in to political reality and withdrew her proposed changes.
The retreat underscored deep divisions among House Democrats that
Pelosi had mostly been able to hold in check until now.

“The children come first. At the end of the day, we have to make sure
that the resources needed to protect the children are available,” Pelosi
said in a letter to colleagues. “ . . . As we pass the Senate bill, we will
do so with a battle cry as to how we go forward to protect children in a
way that truly honors their dignity and worth.”

The legislation passed on the strength of GOP votes, with 176 Republicans
voting yes, compared with 129 Democrats. Ninety-five Democrats opposed
the legislation, as did seven Republicans.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...f9074e-98dd-11e9-830a-21b9b36b64ad_story.html

Congress passed — and President Donald Trump has indicated he will
sign — a $2.88 billion emergency supplemental appropriations
legislation this week.

This comes about three weeks after the Trump administration said it
would dramatically cut aid to detention centers that house migrant
children who arrive in the United States unaccompanied by their
biological parents. Homestead is the largest of those facilities.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article232085272.html#storylink=topdigest_latest
 
illegitimate president, illegitimate presidency, illegitimate cabinet, illegitimate government

What could possibly go wrong ?

June 26, 2019

Henry Kerner was a model conservative.

A member of the Federalist Society, he clerked for a Reagan-appointed judge.
As a Republican staffer, he led House and Senate inquiries into the
Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups,
Obamacare and the “Fast and Furious” gun-running program.

Trump rewarded him by naming him head of the Office of Special Counsel.

Then, Kerner went after White House counselor Kellyanne Conway —
and everything changed.

Wednesday, with Kerner at the witness table, congressional Republicans
attacked his integrity and ethics, and accused the stalwart conservative
of carrying water for progressive groups.

Rep. Glenn Grothman (Wis.) proposed that Conway was targeted
because she’s “a successful conservative woman.”

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) mocked Kerner’s claim that Conway’s actions
“ ‘erode the principal foundation of our democratic system.’

(ooh, Rep. Jim Jordan is hiding something under his belt-
Jordan’s campaign spent more than $10,000 at Trump properties
last year, and Politico reports that Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner
are speaking at a Jordan fundraiser next month.
(Jared Kushner did similarly for Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.)
Axios’s Jonathan Swan reported that Donald Trump Jr. headlined
a dinner for Jordan last week at the Trump International Hotel in Washington.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...d_story.html?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.22c0a9f77eef

"You really believe that? ”
-Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio)

“Yes, I do,” Kerner replied, “because it shows that the rule of law only applies to the little people.”

(Remember when that notion — that nobody is above the law — was a conservative belief?)

- Dana Milbank
Op-ed columnist covering national politics
Washington Post

Trump demands subservience, gets incompetence

-Dana Milbank

WASHINGTON — Can’t anybody here play this game?

- Dana Milbank

Jun 26, 2019

The Trump administration, if you haven’t noticed, is undergoing one
of its frequent paroxysms of incompetence.

The administration’s top border security official resigned Tues.

The chaos takes on many forms, but most of it stems from a single cause:
Trump's determination to run the country like "The Apprentice."

The common thread to the mayhem and bungling is Trump's insistence
on staffing his government with officials serving in temporary, "acting" roles
at the pleasure of the president and without the stature or protection of Senate
confirmation. This allows Trump to demand absolute subservience from
appointees. Because he can replace them at will, they don't contradict him.
But this tentative status also means they lack authority within their agencies
and the stature to stand up to Trump when he's wrong.

Trump fired yet another acting director of ICE. Trump had also ousted his
DHS secretary and his head of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

The Pentagon has been leaderless since Jim Mattis resigned as defense secretary
in December.

Trump is unabashed in his preference for this "Apprentice"-style, "you're fired" leadership.

It's a theme of a new book about Trump's Cabinet, "The Best People,"
by Yahoo News national correspondent Alexander Nazaryan.
Of his fondness for acting officials, Trump told Nazaryan:
"It gives me a lot of leeway. It gives me great flexibility.
I do like it. It's such a big deal to get people approved nowadays. …
We have actings, and we're seeing how we like them."

In other words, the administration is run by people on perpetual tryout,
perpetual probation, unable to make long-term plans or to command the
respect of those they (nominally) lead. The Federal Aviation Administration,
which botched its handling of the Boeing 737 Max crashes, has been led by
acting officials. The Consumer Product Safety Commission, which bungled
the recall of Fisher-Price's Rock 'n Play bassinet, has been run by an acting
chairwoman.

https://www.arcamax.com/politics/fromtheleft/danamilbank/s-2223323

Now, Trump's "actings" are causing babies to go hungry, and they may
soon bumble us into war with Iran.

But that's OK, because Trump likes the "flexibility."

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